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Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the 2003 NBA draft

At the same time, the 2003 NBA draft alternately feels like it happened a century ago, or just last week. The names taken in that draft – LeBron, D-Wade, Carmelo, Chris Bosh – all remain familiar. And yet we ran out of Darko Milicic jokes by 2009, and some of the night’s more celebrated players have moved on to life beyond basketball. On the 10th anniversary of the draft, we thought we’d look back at some of its more memorable faces.